Between Necessity and Probability
Subtitle: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783540204909
Subjects: Cosmology & the universe; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - General; Science; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Life; Exobiology; Origin
First sentence: According to Ernst Haeckel, ''any detailed hypothesis whatever concerning the origin of life must, as yet, be considered worthless, because up till now we have no satisfactory information concerning the extremely peculiar conditions which prevailed on the surface of the earth at the time when the first organisms developed" (Haeckel 1866).